Nicholas Farrell

Italy is under attack from a killer crab

26 August 2023 9:00 am

Italy is under attack from a foreign crab

Giorgia Meloni and the true migration hypocrites

17 July 2023 5:00 pm

Cerberus, the record-breaking heatwave that has struck the Mediterranean, will be followed next week by another one called Charon – after…

The march of Europe’s right-wing women

1 July 2023 9:00 am

The march of Europe’s right-wing women

The visionary madness of Silvio Berlusconi

14 June 2023 8:00 pm

Silvio Berlusconi, whose state funeral will take place today in Milan, was the first modern populist. The media tycoon became a politician to take…

Italy’s crackdown on cyclists is long overdue

12 June 2023 5:49 pm

Years of exposure to their arrogance, illegality and sense of entitlement has shown me that Italy’s cyclists are a public…

Who is really to blame for Italy’s devastating floods?

22 May 2023 10:22 pm

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni cut short her presence at the G7 summit in Hiroshima this weekend to visit the…

France’s migrant hypocrisy

8 May 2023 1:27 am

The French have revealed yet again their shameless hypocrisy in regard to Europe’s illegal migrants crisis that this year looks…

Meloni knows that immigration and fertility are linked

29 April 2023 9:00 am

The battle for the soul of Italy

Should Italy’s killer bear be sentenced to death?

23 April 2023 7:15 pm

The female bear that mauled to death a male jogger in the Italian Alps on 5th April was captured this…

Why Giorgia Meloni is key to ‘stopping the boats’

15 April 2023 9:00 am

Meloni’s plan to ‘stop the boats’

How Giorgia Meloni is remaking Europe

4 March 2023 9:00 am

Giorgia Meloni’s vision for Europe

The hounding of Silvio Berlusconi

21 February 2023 11:35 pm

Silvio Berlusconi has been acquitted of paying bribes worth €10 million (£8.9 million) to female guests at his notorious bunga…

Georgia Meloni’s first 100 days have proved her critics wrong

5 February 2023 11:00 pm

Macho Italy’s first woman prime minister Giorgia Meloni has now governed for 100 days and I cannot help but notice…

Qatargate has exposed the staggering hypocrisy of the European left

24 December 2022 11:52 pm

Ravenna, Italy Everyone in Britain has focused on what the Qatargate corruption scandal reveals about the European Union – but not…

When it comes to migrants, Britain needs to be more French

17 December 2022 11:06 pm

Rishi Sunak’s fighting talk as he launched the latest Tory crackdown on illegal Channel migrants this week, with the dramatic words…

Could Berlusconi end the war in Ukraine?

19 November 2022 9:00 am

Berlusconi reckons he’s the man to broker peace in Ukraine

How Mussolini invented fascism

22 October 2022 8:40 pm

Benito Mussolini, the revolutionary socialist inventor of fascism who came to power 100 years ago this week, was one of…

Giorgia Meloni shows Silvio Berlusconi who’s boss

19 October 2022 10:20 pm

Giorgia Meloni, who is about to become Italy’s first female prime minister, has won her first major battle. It was…

Giorgia Meloni can’t afford to fight the EU

27 September 2022 10:25 pm

Ravenna, Italy The victory of Giorgia Meloni in Italy with ahuge majority of seats in parliament has prompted the expected…

Is Giorgia Meloni the most dangerous woman in Europe?

20 August 2022 9:00 am

Giorgia Meloni is favourite to be Italy’s next prime minister. What does she really believe?

Mario Draghi’s fall and the death of Italian left-wing populism

21 July 2022 6:31 pm

So, another unelected Italian government is collapsing, and the putatively pro-democratic media are all calling it a ‘dark day.’ In…

Could Giorgia Meloni become Italy’s next prime minister?

18 June 2022 10:03 pm

At the last Italian general election in 2018 the right-wing populist party, Fratelli d’Italia, got just 4 per cent of…

Boris is a saint compared to ‘Bunga Bunga’ Berlusconi

1 June 2022 12:25 am

It was only a matter of time before someone really twisted the knife in and compared Boris ‘partygate’ Johnson to…

Italy’s hostility to Nato is building

21 May 2022 9:00 am

  Ravenna, Italy   The war in Ukraine has caused an unholy convergence of the left and right in Italy.…

The war in Ukraine may benefit the populist right

19 March 2022 9:00 am

Might war in Ukraine boost populism?